![]() ![]() In the 1990s, more states were getting tough on crime and imposing harsher sentences. “As I got older, I wasn’t initially focused on the criminal justice system.”īut after Forman graduated from Yale Law School in the 1990s, he clerked for two federal judges, including Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the U.S. ![]() “I grew up thinking about civil rights issues,” said Forman Jr., who is a featured speaker at State Bar of Wisconsin’s 2019 Annual Meeting and Conference (AMC), June 13-14, in Green Bay. It won a 2018 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. His recent book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, dives deep into mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. The civil rights issues of today are different, but James Forman Jr., a law professor at Yale Law School, is following in his father’s footsteps. In the 1960s, his father, James Forman, served as executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), one of four major civil rights organizations of the era. ![]()
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